INEPS - Youth Congresses

Goals for INEPS´ Youth Congresses

GENERAL GOALS

To learn to know and to communicate with people coming from different cultural backgrounds.
To get the opportunity to learn knew things. Discovering.
To develope selfconfidence.
To improve social skills.
To start a process where you can participate as an active member of the society.
To involve everybody in the decisionmaking.
To learn to plan, work through, evaluate a projekt and to spread the experience to others.
To experience belonging to a group.

INDIVIDUAL GOALS

To have good time.
To learn that learning can be fun.
To be more emotional secure.
To get more strength.
To make friends.
To find ways of communication.
To be more responsible.

HOW TO ORGANIZE THE CONGRESS PART

A main theme is choosen by the organizers. All groups interested in going to the youth congress will propose topics to the organizers. Discussing the topics should be a part of the schoolwork. The organizing youngsters decide the topics from the proposals. All youngsters going to the congress can propose topics for the workshops. The organizers will choose 4-5 topics and inform the group that have proposed them. The group will prepare the workshops and other voluntar youngsters from other groups can help or take over. When going to the congress, the youngsters will select which workshop to attend. It must be possible to invent new topics when in the congress.

INEPS youth congresses that took place up until now:

10th. Youth Congress	Paris, France	2017	"Hang up Europe!"
9th. Youth Congress	Berlin, Germany	2011	"International Learning for the Future"
8th. Youth Congress	Patras, Greece	2004	Five Rings
7th. Youth Congress	Stockholm, Sweden	2003	Identity
6th. Youth Congress	Berlin, Germany	2001	Future
5th. Youth Congress	Kuopio & Jyvaskyla, Finland	2000	Water - Aqua
4th. Youth Congress	Göteborg, Sweden	1998	Travel Survive
3th. Youth Congress	Paris, France	1997	"Du bist too much"
2th. Youth Congress	Aarhus, Denmark	1996	"What should a life Qualification Be in the 2000th year?"
1th. Youth Congress	Vilafranca, Spain	1994	"The European Youngsters and the Environment"